The game has been banned in Israel region for the past few years actually (by EA not by Israel) so I don't believe it has to do with the current situation in the region.
Although it seems very strange they singled out Cyprus and Israel in the given list...very strange use case that doesn't explain the logic behind this move.
@Xx-Gimmle-xX The game was never banned in Turkey before (not by EA not by government) so this was really out of the blue. It is still available in all platforms since its release.
@Tardelius I don't know about Turkey or how the game was allowed there, I just know that in the past few years I have had a few people mentioning that the game is not available in Israel.
I actually tried this out myself when I was in the region and the game was nowhere to be found in the EA store.
So maybe they just added Turkey in the last few months? I don't really know. Like I said this whole blacklist issue seems very odd to me, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Don't know what the laws are in Turkey, but I am pretty sure Israel and Cyprus don't have any rules against LGB.
Also, Mass Effect has the same content and is not banned in these countries, so this whole idea is ridiculous.
@Xx-Gimmle-xX Thanks for clarifying. This whole ordeal is odd... very odd. I checked EA store it also doesn't show right now. But I do have the game in my EA library from some time ago, I hope they don't take it away now that I mentioned it.
The game is being offered for free on Epic games, but I'm unable to claim it even though I'm not in the countries that are listed as impacted by embargoes.
Help!
Israel. I just tried adding it to my cart on Steam, and had no issues whatsoever, so I guess it's a bug.
hopefully it'll get resolved before it's no longer free on Epic games.
